Sunday, July 16, 2023
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The highlight of week 7 happened Sunday night. But first, work and flowers.
My work this week was almost entirely writing-based, as I collated research that I've done on the history of atomic theory into a new teaching guide. All in all, that entailed a lot of double-checking sources and fiddling with the formatting on Microsoft Word before I get to dive into the meat of my teaching guide next week.
Saturday morning, two of my friends from the University of Rochester visited DC for lunch and a trip to the United States Botanic Garden. It was crazy-hot outside and although the temperature wasn't much better in the greenhouses, the air smelled green from the sheer quantity of plants packed into every square inch.
Personally, my favorite part was the informational placards by each plant, giving their scientific and common names alongside the locations they're found most commonly in. We spent a few hours wandering the different biomes the gardens had constructed within greenhouses, pointing out plants we liked the colors of (shout-out to the Purple Queen, a groundcover plant that my family and I have in Florida, and yes, it really is that purple) before leaving for some cool-down boba tea.
Then, it was Sunday.
Emily and I spent the last week building a tabletop RPG (similar in structure to Dungeons & Dragons) from scratch, creating a world, background characters, and a gameplay system for our game. It came to fruition around 4:45 last night, as Brynn, Ruthie, Tiffany, Hannah, and Eva gathered around the homemade map to introduce their characters to each other and start on the game's mission.
I won't spoil the whole game now, but we have one more session on Wednesday, and I can't wait to see how everything plays out.
MJ Keller